Thread: ATF Seizes More Than 1K Guns, 71K Rounds on Border 2010

ATF Seizes More Than 1K Guns, 71K Ammunition Rounds on Border

Updated: Friday, 17 Sep 2010, 6:22 PM MDT
Published : Friday, 17 Sep 2010, 1:25 PM MDT


By STEVE KRAFFT
FOX 10 News

PHOENIX - On Friday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives showed off the results of a very successful operation in Arizona.

Between May 1 and August 6, 2010, the ATF seized 1,300 guns and 71,000 rounds of ammunition.

80 ATF agents worked in Phoenix, Tucson and Albuquerque. The goal was to disrupt firearms trafficking into Mexico for use in the drug cartels' war against the Mexican military.

Agents targeted straw purchasers, people recruited by criminals, who bought guns legally in the Phoenix area and then transferred them to smugglers, who sought to bring them into Mexico to arm drug gangs.

ATF also searched vehicles heading south and in one case, stopped a truck carrying over 9,500 rounds of ammunition. The ATF also seized drugs and money.

It branded the operation a success in an ongoing war.

Operation agents acknowledged there are many guns getting through to Mexico, but exactly how many is not known.

The people who smuggled guns into Mexico face charges in the United States.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/cr ... r-09172010

2 illegal aliens indicted for possessing 222 assault rifles
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-228551.html


I.C.E. arrests 3, seizes 28,000 rounds of ammunition in AZ.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-223160-000.html+rounds

Feds say 21,000 bullets were bound for Mexico
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-226151-000.html+rounds

FOX is providing propaganda for the ATF? What a shock. So I guess they want us to believe the 1000 gun they caught over the year make up for the over 1000 guns they allowed to reach the hands of the drug cartels and murder Border Patrol Agent Bryant.

The blitz to cover starts.

Originally Posted by bigtex

FOX is providing propaganda for the ATF? What a shock. So I guess they want us to believe the 1000 gun they caught over the year make up for the over 1000 guns they allowed to reach the hands of the drug cartels and murder Border Patrol Agent Bryant.

Since this is dated Sept. 17, 2010 I doubt that was their goal.

Published : Friday, 17 Sep 2010

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